Ian's Link Dump 21st February 2009

WPF/Silverlight

WPF Application with Dynamic User Controls as Pages

The Silverlight Chronicles: An Introduction

Developer Silverlight Training Resources

ASP.NET

How Do I: Control the Caching of an ASP.NET Page based upon Custom Information (video)

.NET Development

StyleCop for ReSharper is Feature Complete - RC (refresh) Released

The Microsoft SDL Threat Modelling Tool Version 3

Is Crisp a Value object?

Regular Expression that Strips Characters

Things you may not know about JQuery

Design

7 Most Highly Recommended Web Designers

Business Card Design Inspiration

Random album covers

Social Media

9 Blog Suggestions from a Grumpy Reader

Ian's Link Dump 20th February 2009

WPF/Silverlight

Silverlight Code Snippets for DependencyProperties and other handy stuff

Adventures with Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application Part 7

Reducing Silverlight XAP Size

WPF Search Text Box

Carousel Videos Parts 1 and 2

Custom Loading Screens in Silverlight

Working with Strokes in Shapes

XAML Guidelines Parts 1 and 2

A Functional Hard-Wired WPF Application

A small WPF Menu Application to launch External Windows

Consuming ASP.NET Web Services in Silverlight

CLR Properties vs Dependency Properties

.NET Development

Free 'Ebook of the Month' Offer from Microsoft Press (Vista Resource Kit, C#2008 Express Edition - Build a Program Now)

General Web

JQuery 1.3.2 released

Design

Manipulating Text as Vectors in Expression Design

Vintage and Retro Typography Showcase

40 Excellent Illustrations in Web Designs

40 Free Tutorials on Advanced Drawing Techniques

The Ultimate Website Launch Checklist

Ian's Link Dump 19th February 2009

WPF/Silverlight

Download the Updated Silverlight 2.0 Developer Runtime

Updated Microsoft Silverlight Tools for VS2008 SP1 (Ignore the incorrect publication date!)

Silverlight 2 gets Minor Update

DeepZoom Composer - February 2009 Preview Released

A Test WPF Application using an MVC, MVVM -like Pattern

.NET Development

Oxite 2009.2.15 Released

Oxite: What's New and How to Stay Up-to-date with it

'How Do I' Azure Videos Available Online

Page Refresh Detection using HttpModule

JQuery Ajax Experience Framework Videos

General Web

Internet Explorer 8 Resources

Tools/Utilities

MyCleenr (Twiiter contact list cleaner)

Design

9 Common Usability Mistakes in Web Design

Top 10 Logo Design Inspiration Galleries

40+ Adobe After Effects Best of Tutorials and Resources

15 Incredible Conceptual Designs You Wish Existed

Ian's Link Dump 18th February 2009

WPF/Silverlight

Three-column menued Layout for WPF Applications

MVVM

PRISM v2 (video overview)

TIP: Don't be afraid to use x:Name in XAML

New version of Silverlight LinkLabel (v1.1) released

XAML Ninja (podcast)

Implementing Validation logic in Silverlight 2

Porting WPF Applications to Microsoft Surface

A VirtualizedStackPanel Control in Silverlight 2.0

WPF Line of Business Hands-On Lab

Silverlight Release History

.NET Programming

Twitter Script (PowerShell) - Who's Following You (or not following you)

Domain Driven Design: A Step-by-Step Guide Part 2

Speed up Your App by Compressing WCF Service Responses

General Web

32 Indispensable Bookmarklets for Web Developers and Designers

Design

Fresh Free Fonts

10 Easy Steps to Advanced Photography Skills

Adobe on twitter

Ian's Link Dump 16th February 2009

WPF/Silverlight

Blacklight Controls

MVVM Pattern in Silverlight Using SL Extensions

Styling the Focus Panel: Visual State Manager

Customising the Silverlight 2 ItemsControl with Templates

Tracking Silverlight Support in Google Analytics

Analytics Web Tracking with Silverlight

Using URIs in Expression Blend

.NET Development

WCF Services in a Shared Hosting Environment

The Art of Debugging (Part 1)

Public, Protected, Private. Oh my!

General Web

100 Best Javascript Resources

5 Tools to Download any Book from Google and Save it as a PDF

Ways to get Traffic without Google

Design

18 Photoshop Brush Sets for Incredible Lighting Effects

15 Smiley Icon Sets - Express Yourself

Ian's Link Dump 14th February 2009

WPF/Silverlight

MVVM Training Day Sample Appliction and Decks

How to make a Web 2.0 reflection of an image

How to use the Popup Control to have interactive buttons in a tooltip-like bubble

Avoid Having Default Values in XAML To do Less during Load

Data Visualisation with Physics

Simulating IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem in Silverlight

.NET Development

Fun with Folds

Video explanation of JQuery

This Week on C9: Win 7 Taskbar, art of debugging, WPF and the end of the world?

Design

50 Wonderful Inspiring Photoblogs

General Web

Become a CSS Zen Master

Humour

Cream Egg Smashed

Ian's Link Dump 13th February 2009

WPF/Silverlight

Quince UX Patterns Explorer

Tuning Animations in Silverlight Apps

How to Determine the Processor Count from a Silverlight web page

Design

Domain Driven Design: A Step by Step Guide

Web Development

Push up the web

Do Try..Catch blocks hurt runtime performance

Free Resources

25 Sites to find good, free Vector Files

Community/ALT.NET

Real Ultimate Programming Power

Ian's Link Dump 12th February 2009

WPF/Silverlight

WPF vs Silverlight: A Subset or what?

Evangelizing Silverlight (actually good overview of strengths/weaknesses)

Silverlight to WCF Service Object Encryption
XAML PowerToys 4.0 Released (code name 'MVVM')

Silverlight DataGrid: A Simple Pager Control

Reading XML Through Linq with Silverlight

Wrangling Very large Deep Zoom Images

Expression Blend Tutorial (they don't come much cleaner than this!)

Community/ALT.NET

The Ferengi Programmer

Tools/Web Resources

StyleCop for Resharper

Free retro icon set

Ultimate collection of free Photoshop patterns

Ian's Link Dump 11th February 2009

This blog has been pretty dead since I discovered Twitter. I'm accumulating so many links that I'm going to try and dump them here daily (but not tomorrow as I'm going to London Twestival 2009).

Silverlight/WPF Links

Silverlight as a View in ASP.NET MVC

Mike Snow's Silverlight 'Tip of the Day' blog

WPF Checkboxes Design

WPF ComboBox Font Families

Three essential Expression Blend Add-ins

Web Design

Just because you can Animate doesn't mean you should

Move Web Site Designs and Current Practices

Cloud Computing

Azure Services Training Kit

Video

BBC White Paper: Assessment and Settings for Sony PMW-EX1 and EX3

Community

Find a User Group

Humour

Favourite Programmer Cartoons